The authorities in Mexico have arrested 11 gang members suspected of killing and dismembering up to 16 people in the last 10 days.

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Sao Paulo (CNN) -- A Brazilian woman has confessed to shooting her husband, dismembering him and scattering the parts in a wooded area outside Sao Paulo, police said on Wednesday.

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Though one train operator, Go-Ahead, has called for dismembering the network into four or five regional companies, there is little enthusiasm in the industry, and none in government, for further fundamental upheaval.

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New York (CNN) -- A New York hardware clerk pleaded guilty Thursday to second degree murder and kidnapping in the second degree, after abducting, smothering and dismembering an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy in the Hasidic Jewish enclave of Borough Park.

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That sounds great, but the difficulty in actually procuring ingredients is compounded by the need to make a decision about what to cook, not to mention cooking it without dismembering oneself or creating small fires in an enclosed space.

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All of which means that Mr Jospin is suddenly under pressure to defend his plan against accusations, from most of the right and some of the left, that it is not just soft on terrorists but is also unleashing a separatist spirit which, by encouraging the Basques, the Bretons, the Alsatians and others, risks dismembering the republic.

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